THEHE are men who cherish what ought to be. There are others who stress what is. The former are moralists, the latter scientists. Alfred North Whitehead was something of both, as a philosopher should ...

SINCE The Wit and Wisdom of Whitehead was published, Alfred North Whitehead has died. This does not alter the value of the book, but it does deeply affect the tone in which one speaks of that ...

DIALOGUES OF ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (373 pp.)—Lucien Price—Little, Brown ($5). Harvard’s late famed Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead was far from the conventional absent-minded ...

“I saw history,” said Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once, “before I read it.” He played games amid relics of the Roman, Saxon and Norman conquests; his father was vicar of a church built by the ...

In the essays on education of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), the word "imagination" stands out: the teacher’s ability to see many possibilities in teaching a subject. There is also student ...